Child Quotes

A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland

Lost, Strange, Though

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
Steven Wright

Kid, Eventually, Sand

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Ask, Accountant

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Kenny Guinn

Best, Children, Service

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury

Touch, Scientist

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
Mitt Romney

Education, Good, Future

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.
Mitt Romney

Today, School, Tomorrow

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Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall

Time, Perfection

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.
Fred G. Gosman

Disrespect, Continue, Ignoring

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

Human, Understand, Away

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin

Love, Great, Give

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Laugh, Him, Beware

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Children, Him

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
Angelina Jolie

Beauty, Family, Children

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Victor Hugo

Blessed, Woman, Devil

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Great, Real, Everything

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

Happiness, Test, Procedure

No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Vladimir Lenin

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
Fran Lebowitz

Rainy, Won, Ask

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo

Women, Great, Through

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
Hillary Clinton

Yourself, Greatest, Giving

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Parents, Important

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Children, Small, Cannot

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
Jane D. Hull

Success, Positive, End

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Before, Born, Ignorant

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Change, Old

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Cannot, Pay

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